On Friday 11 June 2004 09:35, Nick Rout wrote:
> The redhat thing I posted last night definitely works.
So does this one:-
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bgrescue/?branch_id=41959&release_id=152835
It's a pair of 1440 diskettes. Boot the first one, and then put in the second
one when it asks for
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:27, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:04, Brendan Greer wrote:
> I do not have a particularly fast connection, and retrying freebsd was
> to be my next project, but I have changed my mind and am bittorrenting
> now :-)
>
> (at 128k it may take a while!)
Nick i´ve got Fr
to let nick & mathew know i can now get access to the BSD distro.
It appears that even tho i had a boot loader in the MBR MDK still had the HD
set as a ext3 partitioned drive and scewed it up (twice) as i have now
installed BSD 3 times.
and i am using lilo.
thanks for the help folks.
--
Dave
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 23:06, Kerry Mayes wrote:
> Second attempt:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Hopefully an easy question, I'm using Mdk 9.2 and looking for the app
> > for users to control when to dial up the internet. Currently I can only
> > find the bit within mandrake control center (which ordinary users
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 20:02, stm23 wrote:
> so it would seem that the -g option is the key!
To make life easier in future, open the file ".bashrc", which lives in
your home directory, and add the line
export CFLAGS="-g -Wall"
or
export CLFAGS="-g -ansi -Wall"
or
export CFLA
Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
as a matter of good programming practice, you should compile with all
warnings on.
Then, change the code so that no warnings are generated.
Good point.
While were on the topic, once you get more than one source code file in
your program, it's worth the effort to lear
Brendan, I can cut you a cd as soon as I am physically at the computer,
in fact i will be close to home at lunchtime (son playing recorder at
assembly).
call me on 027 220 3169 as I see you have another offer anyway ;-)
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:04:04 +1200
Brendan Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
as a matter of good programming practice, you should compile with all
warnings on.
Then, change the code so that no warnings are generated.
Yes, this is a pain (fixing all those seemingly silly warnings) but you
end up with better quality code. Further, there are times when a warning
po
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:47:56 +1200
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 June 2004 21:06, Nick Rout wrote:
> > what version of toms are you using,
> 2.0.17 and 2.0.17
> both of them have this error.
I understand from what iwas reading on gentoo forums that the problem
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The redhat thing I posted last night definitely works. i did it again on
the lan at home last night as I was posting to you.
I booted off the bootnet floppy, luckily it recognised the network card,
but I could have used the drvnet floppy, i then followed those
instructions I posted yesterday and v
On Friday 11 June 2004 08:41, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
> My first Gentoo box was built with the cover off and a temporary CD drive
> hanging off the side. (Removed later obviously)
Certainly that's an option, but a very definite part of the exercise is to
demonstrate the use of a floppy to
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:36, Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:27, Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:04, Brendan Greer wrote:
Hi
Is there any one out there with Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation
Edition on CD or a fast internet connection who wouldn't mind
Two
My first Gentoo box was built with the cover off and a temporary CD drive
hanging off the side. (Removed later obviously)
I can probably lend you one if you like.
Regards, Robert
-Original Message-
These particular boxes haven't got cdroms either
To my untrained eye it looks like DDD is trying to find source for the
very first entry point to the program - depending on link settings and
libraries your main may not be the entry point. Can you set a
breakpoint at main & just ignore the file not found errors? Most
debuggers treat unable t
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:36, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:27, Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:04, Brendan Greer wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Is there any one out there with Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation
> > > Edition on CD or a fast internet connection who wouldn
I currently run a variety of linux/BSD servers behind my own Web/DNS/FW
server , the primary issue here is to get a new linux user connected to the
net is it not , hense why I had not mentioned firewalls etc in the initial
post .
My thinking re this situation is to get the new user up and running a
On Thursday 10 June 2004 11:42, David Jarman wrote:
>What does anyone know about possible software, that would run with
> Mandrake 9.0 or 10.0 Official, for applications that would normally need
> Windows to run? I have catalogues on CD which require Windows to be
> understood. An alternative
What does anyone know about possible software, that would run with Mandrake
9.0 or 10.0 Official, for applications that would normally need Windows to
run? I have catalogues on CD which require Windows to be understood. An
alternative is to run two systems, the other being Windows, but can
On Thursday 10 June 2004 21:06, Nick Rout wrote:
> what version of toms are you using,
2.0.17 and 2.0.17
both of them have this error.
> I heard this problam had been fixed, but that may have been incorrect.
I fear so.
> Helpful aren't i?
:-)
> I had this problem a while ago and took ages to sor
Kewl. I got those already installed. ( Lucky me )
I shall dive into this tomorrow once I get back from picton and let your
know how I get on.
again i just want to say a VERY big thanks for all your time, help and
patience.
G.C.
Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-06-10T222415+1200, G Chinnery wrote:
At 2004-06-10T222415+1200, G Chinnery wrote:
> Now that sounds like fun. is it possible to compile a kernel in rescue
> mode as thats the only way I can get into the box at the moment?
Well, if you're chrooting into the installed system after booting the
rescue, then sure. You'll probably need to
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:27, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:04, Brendan Greer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there any one out there with Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation
> > Edition on CD or a fast internet connection who wouldn't mind
> > downloading(over Bit Torrent) and burning it
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:04, Brendan Greer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any one out there with Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation
> Edition on CD or a fast internet connection who wouldn't mind
> downloading(over Bit Torrent) and burning it to a CD for me please?
> (Willing to pay $5-$15)
> It can
Now that sounds like fun. is it possible to compile a kernel in rescue
mode as thats the only way I can get into the box at the moment?
G.C.
Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-06-10T215901+1200, Matthew Gregan wrote:
If you have the resources, you could try rebuilding the kernel for the
installer a
At 2004-06-10T215901+1200, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> If you have the resources, you could try rebuilding the kernel for the
> installer and removing the PNP BIOS support. This is probably more
> trouble than it's worth. This should be as "simple" as installing the
> kernel-source package, dropping
OK I look into all that now.
Hay Thanks a lot for all your help and everyone else that had input.
I hope I can be as helpful to someone on here as you all have been for me.
G.Chinnery.
Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-06-10T214000+1200, G Chinnery wrote:
Ok sorry not very clear there was I.
Hi
Is there any one out there with Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation
Edition on CD or a fast internet connection who wouldn't mind
downloading(over Bit Torrent) and burning it to a CD for me please?
(Willing to pay $5-$15)
It can be found \/
http://www.xandros.com/products/home/desktopoc/dsk_o
At 2004-06-10T214000+1200, G Chinnery wrote:
> Ok sorry not very clear there was I.
> isapnp scan comes first and with no isapnp the scan is disabled.
> But the next 2 lines are still the same.
> PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fdca0
> PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:6538,
Sounds good. But how would I do that?
I have the SCU disk which I have to use to change BIOS settings, unlike
a normal MB where you just hit del.
I looked for something like that and nothing.
G.Chinnery.
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 21:40, G Chinnery wrote:
Ok sorry not very clear th
Download Redhat's bootnet.img (you'll probably need a drvnet.img as well
for network card support) from any of the Redhat mirrors. Here's one:
ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/images/
To create the floppy(s) in Linux: dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0
Boot the fir
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 21:40, G Chinnery wrote:
> Ok sorry not very clear there was I.
>
> isapnp scan comes first and with no isapnp the scan is disabled.
> But the next 2 lines are still the same.
>
> PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fdca0
> PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:
Ok sorry not very clear there was I.
isapnp scan comes first and with no isapnp the scan is disabled.
But the next 2 lines are still the same.
PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fdca0
PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:6538, dseg at f
I used the rescue disk to get into the box.
At 2004-06-10T212853+1200, G Chinnery wrote:
> Well "noisapnp" worked but the "pnpbios=off" didn't and I still hung up
> in the same spot.
What do you mean by "worked"?
-mjg
--
Matthew Gregan |/
/|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well "noisapnp" worked but the "pnpbios=off" didn't and I still hung up
in the same spot.
xxvvyyxfrustrating
G.Chinnery.
Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-06-10T200804+1200, G Chinnery wrote:
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PnP: PNP BIOS instal
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33121&highlight=installing+floppy
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 20:50, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Greets list,
>
> I'm trying to use tomsrtbt to bootstrap into building a simple unix box.
> I have got to the stage of changing the root, but the chroot command sa
Why not jump to the latest version - 10.0?
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 20:08, G Chinnery wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I have a Digital Prioris MX 6266/MP2 Server. BIOS V2.00
>
> I have been running mandrake 6.1 on it for a long time now faultlessly.
> In the last 2 weeks I have been trying to upgrade it
what version of toms are you using, I heard this problam had been fixed,
but that may have been incorrect.
Helpful aren't i?
I had this problem a while ago and took ages to sort it.
Would have been easier to slip a cdrom drive in the machine and boot off
that, but i am kinda stubborn.
suggestio
Greets list,
I'm trying to use tomsrtbt to bootstrap into building a simple unix box.
I have got to the stage of changing the root, but the chroot command says:
FATAL: Kernel too old.
Does anyone know of a bootable floppy which has a chroot command which
actually works?
Thanks a million.
--
S
At 2004-06-10T203028+1200, dave wrote:
> Using 5.2 RELEASE and using UFS2 latest filesystem, UFS isn´t used as
> a default FS in 5.x (i think from memory of the install).
Right, so GRUB won't allow you to boot this system directly (i.e. using
the method Nick suggested). Chainloading will still wo
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Your settings are as fol
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:52, you wrote:
> At 2004-06-10T192232+1200, dave wrote:
> > did that by installing grub via mandrake control center.
> > tried to load BSD but it just sat with the following lines on the screen.
>
> Why install GRUB now? You've just switched bootloaders in the middle of
> tr
At 2004-06-10T200804+1200, G Chinnery wrote:
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fdca0
> PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:6538, dseg at f
> Then it just hangs and sits there doing nothing.
Try booti
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:44, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:22, dave wrote:
> > > Right. You won't be able to boot that system from LILO until you do
> > > this. LILO can't boot BSD systems directly (however, GRUB can)--your
> > > LILO is currently configured to chain-load the BSD bootloader
Hello list.
I have a Digital Prioris MX 6266/MP2 Server. BIOS V2.00
I have been running mandrake 6.1 on it for a long time now faultlessly.
In the last 2 weeks I have been trying to upgrade it ( clean install )
with Mandrake 8.1. It don't Blxxxy work. *8-(
All the installation completes fine. Bu
hi steve, thanx for the help, its very much appreciated. i used your command:
gcc -g -o program program.c
before running ddd
i had been using the command: gcc -o program program.c
so it would seem that the -g option is the key!
thanx again
sam
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 2004-06-10T192232+1200, dave wrote:
> did that by installing grub via mandrake control center.
> tried to load BSD but it just sat with the following lines on the screen.
Why install GRUB now? You've just switched bootloaders in the middle of
troubleshooting. LILO would have worked fine. GRU
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:31, stm23 wrote:
> hi, sorry i already was using ddd program & (not ddd program.c & - as i had
> mistakenly stated). i wish it were that simple :)
>
If I remember correctly there is a flag you have to use when compiling
to enable ddd to debug a C program. Unfortunately
stm23 wrote:
hi, sorry i already was using ddd program & (not ddd program.c & - as i had
mistakenly stated). i wish it were that simple :)
The debugger works on the compiled program, not the source. You need to
run it against program, not program.c
= Original Message From [EMAIL
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:22, dave wrote:
> >
> > Right. You won't be able to boot that system from LILO until you do
> > this. LILO can't boot BSD systems directly (however, GRUB can)--your
> > LILO is currently configured to chain-load the BSD bootloader.
> Is it a good thing ???
>
> > The safe
hi, sorry i already was using ddd program & (not ddd program.c & - as i had
mistakenly stated). i wish it were that simple :)
>The debugger works on the compiled program, not the source. You need to
>run it against program, not program.c
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
>st
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
>stm23 wrote:
>
>>hi, i'm trying to use ddd to debug my c file program.c. when i attempt to
>>start ddd eg:
>>
>> ddd program.c &
>>
>>i get an error message in the ddd window:
>>
>> DDD No Source
>> /mnt/FAT23/mydocs/sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S
stm23 wrote:
hi, i'm trying to use ddd to debug my c file program.c. when i attempt to
start ddd eg:
ddd program.c &
i get an error message in the ddd window:
DDD No Source
/mnt/FAT23/mydocs/sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S: No such file or directory
i've checked & this file doesn't exist. why can't
>
> Right. You won't be able to boot that system from LILO until you do
> this. LILO can't boot BSD systems directly (however, GRUB can)--your
> LILO is currently configured to chain-load the BSD bootloader.
Is it a good thing ???
> The safest bet is to install the BSD bootloader into the partit
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